Well, yeah of course, in the sense that if the intent was to go for impact rather than writing a real character, cheap ploys like that are disrespectful to the audience.
The movie had some other good points, though. I didn't think it was terrible. Overall I'm glad I saw it. Also, I could be wrong about their intent in making that choice. This is just a meme idea the person I saw the movie with gave me when we were talking about the movie afterwards.